
Government Accountability
During the three years since George Floyd’s murder, the law enforcement lobby succeeded in eroding the initial bill’s expansive provisions.
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The report identified challenges that made it hard for some groups to complete their work — but city leaders promise to fix those problems before the next round of grants.
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Penn State, Pitt, and others get hundreds of millions in taxpayer funds. Tracking it is a challenge
Transparency into how Pennsylvania’s state-related universities spend annual appropriations is limited.
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How Pennsylvania has (and hasn’t) spent billions of COVID-19 stimulus dollars (FULL LIST)
Pennsylvania received $7.3 billion in state and local pandemic relief funding from the American Rescue Plan Act and had spent more than $5.6 billion as of March.
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Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law is upheld again, as court rules against Republican challenge
It is the latest of several refusals by a state court to invalidate Pennsylvania's 2019 mail-in voting law, enacted barely months before the COVID-19 pandemic began.
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Supreme Court upholds North Carolina ruling that congressional districts violated state law
The Supreme Court has ruled that North Carolina’s top court did not overstep its bounds in striking down a congressional districting plan as excessively partisan under state l
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Audio captures Trump discussing ‘highly confidential’ documents
The recording, from a July 2021 interview Trump gave at his Bedminster, New Jersey, is a critical piece of evidence in special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump.
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A secret mission to dump radioactive cargo in Atlantic Ocean tells history of nuclear tests
Answer to decades-long mystery uncovered in the archive at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia.
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Listen 16:09Hunter Biden federal court date set in Wilmington on tax dodging, firearm charges
Prosecutors said the president’s son will admit to failing to pay more than $200,000 in federal income taxes, and to having a .38 Special while addicted to drugs.
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So far, 23 departments have completed their initial racial equity action plans. All departments will need to complete theirs by the end of the year.
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Biden administration moves to restore endangered species protections dropped by Trump
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said it would reinstate a decades-old regulation that mandates blanket protections for species newly classified as threatened.
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Justice Alito accepted Alaska resort vacation from GOP donors, report says
A story published Wednesday by ProPublica states that in July 2008 Alito flew to a remote corner of Alaska aboard the private plane of businessman and GOP donor, Paul Singer.
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Pennsylvania congressional delegation divided over Donald Trump indictment
Some of Trump’s most loyal supporters in the House have remained silent on the indictment.
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Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked Pentagon Papers exposing Vietnam War secrets, dies at 92
Ellsberg had announced in February that he was terminally ill with pancreatic cancer. A letter released by his family says he died Friday morning.
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Trump’s promise of payback for prosecution follows years of attacking democratic traditions
Trump's attacks on the justice system are the latest step in a now eight-year campaign by the former president and his allies.
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